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A real macOS flaw worth $200K went unreported because Apple's bug bounty inbox was full of AI slop
Apple's bug bounty program is drowning in AI-generated bug reports. The company has capped submissions per researcher be…
Palantir earnings will test the real shape of enterprise AI
The company’s growth suggests enterprise AI is moving beyond pilot projects. It also raises a harder question about whet…
SpaceAI could be Southeast Asia’s edge against El Niño—if governments actually use it
SpaceAI—the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and space technologies—can help Southeast Asia turn raw data int…
Startup swaps costly AI GPUs for Arm cores and up to 128TB of 'cheap' LPDDR6 RAM instead of expensive HBM to smash through the memory wall
Majestic Labs unveiled an Arm-based AI server replacing GPUs with unified LPDDR6 memory, claiming lower costs and dramat…
$10 billion startup gets SK Hynix backing to build a transformer that does just one thing but exceedingly well
Etched secured SK Hynix backing at a $10.3 billion valuation while expanding custom AI inference hardware using Low Volt…
Quote of the day by investor Warren Buffett on AI capex: "That's real money... That kind of money wasn't even put in the railroad business" — outlining his bullish long-term thesis on AI
AI companies are depleting their cash reserves and pouring historic levels of money into the AI buildout…
Amazon’s Andy Jassy sees a $1 trillion cloud built on businesses like the PGA Tour—which swapped its server trucks for AI broadcasts
AWS just posted $42.2 billion in revenue with its fastest growth in 18 quarters and the AI platform saw more spending la…
Meet the 80 top-funded startups and tech companies in Southeast Asia
Here are the companies in Southeast Asia that are attracting tons of investors and have the resources to spend on softwa…
50 rising startups in Southeast Asia
Which startups are on the path to becoming the next big thing?…
4 neuroscience-backed tips for using AI to learn more effectively
Four practices that can help you turn AI conversations into lasting skills. It’s Monday, and you’re a leader who wants …
Index Ventures raises $2b for startup bets
Index Ventures increased its growth fund from US$1.5b to US$2.2b in 2024.…
AI ad startup Reforged Labs winds down after 3 years
Reforged Labs had a team split across Vietnam and the US during its three years of operation.…
A list of fundraising startups from Asia and beyond (Updated)
Fundraising is hard. To make things slightly easier, we've compiled this list of fundraising startups for our subscriber…
Lenovo's first Googlebooks have leaked
The company appears to have built new laptops and a 2-in-1 for the Googlebook initiative.…
How is your enterprise tracking AI agent telemetry? Groundcover thinks it should never leave your cloud
The AI agent observability space is taking off — but how can enterprises be sure what observability products and solutio…
Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup?
LemonLime’s CEO got “carried away” with tattoo gimmick.…
'We've set this company up in preparation for this moment' — as PlayStation scraps discs, these companies are ready to keep physical games alive
I spoke to some of the companies keeping physical games media alive in the wake of PlayStation's pivot to a digital-only…
Miso (YC S16) is hiring for U.S. expansion
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/miso/jobs/g2uAlMG-founding-business-lead-u-s-expansion Comments URL: …
The EU is cracking down on hacking and AI deepfakes with this new team in Brussels
Brussels will begin to track models for violations ahead of the launch of the AI Act this weekend. The European Union r…
Exclusive: 'We...ask the impossible of these guys, and they figure it out': I saw inside Beats' labs to see how 12 years with Apple changed the company — and why 'the testing, the tuning, the science behind the fit and the sound' is the hidden secret
Twelve years after Apple acquired Beats, TechRadar was granted exclusive access to the company's Culver City headquarter…
Everyone else is shrinking satellites. K2 raised $500m to build giant ones, and put AI in orbit.
Most satellite startups are racing to build smaller. K2 Space is going the other way, on purpose. Investors just handed …
The unsexy layer AI agents actually need: DataBahn raises $40m to sell it
The glamorous part of AI is the models. The expensive, unglamorous part is getting them the right data. A startup just r…
'C-suite executives need to upskill themselves to really understand the threats': AI is becoming a tool for attackers and defenders, but true resilience requires a constantly changing strategy, says former GCHQ intelligence expert
The only choice for businesses it to adapt and respond, and that means using an evolving resilience strategy.…
The chips that wire GPUs together are the new prize. Xsight raised $300m to sell an open one.
The AI boom made GPUs famous. The dull chips that wire thousands of those GPUs together are quietly becoming just as val…
Oracle put its cloud rival’s AI inside its business apps, and the stock jumped 8%
Oracle has just put its cloud rival’s AI at the heart of the software its customers run their businesses on. Investors c…
Why memory chip stocks are rallying again: Micron and Sandisk surge as AI optimism returns
American and South Korean semiconductor and storage companies recovered a bit from an earlier selloff after fresh positi…
Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton’s Dishy Google Memoir + Substack’s Slop Fight
“It just seems like the temperature is rising on Silicon Valley.”…
Electronic Arts says it'll be a private company next week
Electronic Arts will close its $55 billion deal to go private by August 4 next week.…
I told Mark Cuban he was wrong about AI. Here’s what founders can learn from my mistake
He had asked where the business was headed. I had been too busy defending where it already was. In 2013, I stood across…
A 103-year-old company says it has a plan to make AI data centers ‘water-neutral’
Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.…
Cracking down on shadow AI is making your business less secure, not more
Cracking down on shadow AI may be creating bigger security risks than it solves.…
Five Takeaways From the Times Investigation Into Larry Ellison’s A.I. Gamble
The billionaire’s company took on ominous loads of debt to build data centers around the world. The implications go far …
This startup just raised nearly $500 million to build nuclear reactors for the US military
Seven weeks after its reactor went critical at Idaho National Laboratory, Antares has raised $470m to put microreactors …
Apple’s Profit Is Up 27%, but Expectations for Current Quarter Disappoint
The company recently raised prices on a number of products because of component supply shortages caused by the artificia…
'With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon' — quote of the day by Elon Musk on the rise of machine intelligence
Scientists and technology execs alike are torn on what the implications of AI will be, although many liken it to a highe…
Why an A.I. Bubble Might Not Be a Bad Thing
As fears spread over a possible artificial intelligence bubble, some tech investors say: Bring it on.…
Big Tech’s A.I. Spending Keeps Rising. So Do the Jitters.
Amazon joined a procession of tech giants that ramped up their spending on artificial intelligence, as its capital expen…
Apple’s Profit Increases 27 Percent, Topping Wall Street Expectations
The company recently raised prices on a number of products because of component supply shortages caused by the artificia…
Hollywood was too afraid to distribute this movie. So the director built her own company and did it herself
Filmmaker Cherien Dabis speaks with Fast Company about the challenges of getting a Palestinian story made and why tradit…
That cringey LinkedIn post? You can now report it as ‘AI slop’
The professional networking site is giving users a new way to hide and report posts they believe rely too heavily on art…
A Y-Combinator startup offered job interviews in exchange for getting a tattoo—because they want employees ‘just as crazy as we are’
AI company LemonLime’s hiring stunt has gone viral for all the wrong reasons, prompting accusations of exploitation. Th…
AI is coming for the cheap seats on your favourite flight route
The lucky dip of stumbling on a cheap seat on a popular flight is starting to disappear. Airlines are handing their pric…
Intel is handing its Atom chip tech to a startup run by the CEO’s longtime partner
Intel is quietly handing one of its crown jewels to a tiny, stealthy startup. And that startup is run by a longtime busi…
Amazon is winding down most of its Nova AI models to bet on one frontier model
Amazon is winding down most of its flagship Nova AI models. It is betting what remains on a single, bigger effort to bui…
Ex-Anduril founders raise $30mn to build Europe’s synthetic battlefield for defence AI
A London startup building the training grounds for Europe’s autonomous weapons has come out of stealth with $30mn. It is…
LinkedIn is testing a 'seems like AI slop' reporting tool
The company is also removing some of its own AI-writing features.…
Mastercard spent decades training its fraud system to see bots as thieves. Now bots are the ones doing the buying.
Every time a Mastercard gets tapped, the network has less than a tenth of a second to judge how likely the purchase is t…
Hush Security says the AI security problem has shifted from protecting models to governing identities as autonomous agents spread
Less than a year after emerging from stealth to tackle non-human identity security, Israeli cybersecurity startup Hush S…
The AI industry is rallying around open models. Is it more than talk?
Transparent open-weight models may be great for safety and security, but very problematic for making money and paying of…
Microsoft introduces its first agent-powered cybersecurity model and Project Perception AI patching system - can it avoid making the same mistakes OpenAI made?
Microsoft's new security AI writes and deploys its own patches, six days after OpenAI's models escaped a sandbox and hac…
Can Big Tech's 2030 climate goals survive the AI boom?
Cracks are starting to show in Big Tech 2030 climate goals – is 2030 still a realistic deadline, or is it just a test?…
I tested the 7 best AEO tools & here’s the one I'll use every day in 2026
The best tools to bring your business to AI search…
Samsung reports billions in record profit for Q2 thanks to AI boom
The chip giant announced $62 billion in earnings for the April–June period. South Korean technology giant Samsung Elect…
The great scramble to build AI compute you can actually own
As AI gives compute a physical address, companies and governments are discovering that where a model runs—and who can le…
Why your AI strategy has a trust problem and speed won't fix it
Faster AI alone won't build customer trust, sustainable adoption, or long-term business value.…
Why we still hate HR—and 100 business leaders on how to fix it
Technology is removing the ‘human’ from HR. 100 execs—including 66 CEOs—offer specific suggestions for how to reinvent t…
Forget robots on assembly lines. Foundational Industries wants AI to run the entire factory
The startup says software-native factories can leapfrog China’s highly automated manufacturing base rather than trying t…
Meta says its AI is making you spend more time on Instagram
Meta says people are spending more time on Instagram, and it credits its artificial intelligence for the increase. Globa…
Atlassian puts its engineers on an AI budget as the cost of ‘tokenmaxxing’ bites
The software maker cut thousands of jobs in the name of AI. Now it is handing the engineers who remain capped ‘AI wallet…
Meta lifts the floor on its AI spending as revenue jumps but cash flow collapses
Meta told investors it will spend even more on artificial intelligence this year, narrowing its capital-expenditure fore…
Gen Z women are having an entrepreneurship boom
More young women are starting businesses than those in older generations, data shows. Gen Z women are having a moment w…
Companies are finally seeing AI ROI — and now they know how much more value it can deliver
Presented by SAPEnterprise AI has moved from experiment to execution, and that shift is beginning to show real returns. …
Businesses with less than 1,000 employees made 92% of May hires
According to federal data, companies with 10 to 49 employees made up the largest share of hires for the month. If you’v…
AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-s-top-startups-are-barely-publishing-their-research Comments URL…
Meta’s Profit Falls 14 Percent as A.I. Spending Continues
The Silicon Valley company’s costs rose more steeply than revenue growth, as it continues to invest heavily in artificia…
At Waymo, an AI project isn't ready until its evals are — not when the model performs well
Few companies face higher stakes when deploying AI than Waymo, the self-driving car company under Alphabet that spun out…
Microsoft Increases Spending on A.I. as Profit Jumps 31.6%
Like other big technology companies, Microsoft is hoping its aggressive spending on artificial intelligence is starting …
‘Tech people need to stop’: Startup faces backlash after suggesting its AI can save bad relationships
Where is the line between marketing a product as helpful and promising to help people offload responsibilities? AI comp…
Enterprise AI agents can't talk to each other, can't be trusted with permissions, and can't be audited — 5 startups are already fixing that
Enterprise AI agents can do the work — but the infrastructure to let them talk to each other, prove they should be trust…
These 5 pillars helped our company thrive for 60 years
Here’s what other businesses can learn from us. Leading a company can pose many challenges. The reality is that many bu…
Pangram says its new AI text detector makes only one mistake per 24,000 documents
Pangram 4 detects 99.66 percent of AI-generated text with just one false positive per 24,000 documents, the company clai…
Fiverr stock today: Freelance marketplace’s collapse proves AI is decimating the gig economy
FVRR shares were down over 20% Wednesday after the company reported lackluster second-quarter 2026 earnings. FiverrR…
Target SVP says its real AI moat isn't the models — it's everything built around them
Target SVP Siobhán Mc Feeney says the AI models her company runs aren't what gives Target its edge — everything bui…
AI shopping is coming to your favorite brand’s website
After launching as a standalone consumer app, the startup Daydream is embedding natural-language search directly into we…
92% of wealthy Americans are changing their financial plans because of this trend—and it’s reshaping how founders exit
The long-term strategy of business owners is shifting. Here’s why. As the average life span increases, entrepreneurs ar…
Serena Williams wants to find the next trillion-dollar company
With 16 unicorns in her portfolio, Williams—head of the newly renamed Starfire Ventures—is betting that overlooked found…
I build self-driving trucks. Don’t build a self-driving company
AI is good enough to run your company, which is exactly why you shouldn’t let it. Right now, investors are overrun with…
A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands
The future of artificial intelligence depends on finding more skilled humans for some very physical jobs.…
Should AI companies be able to outsource safety?
Rules aimed only at downstream applications can make AI products less safe. Policymakers should hold both model makers a…
Why proving personhood is the new standard for identity verification
AI-generated identities are bypassing traditional checks, making proof of personhood business-critical for fraud prevent…
Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not block Chinese AI models
Mark Zuckerberg has come out against one of Washington’s favourite ideas about artificial intelligence: that the way to …
Cursor cut its India price to $7, and its own AI models are why
Cursor has cut the price of AI coding in India to about $7 a month. The interesting part is how it can afford to. The st…
What Is Open-Weight A.I.?
As Silicon Valley debates how artificial intelligence software should be created, “open weight” has been a major part of…
Meta drops major climate pledge after a decade of membership, says it is still committed to renewable energy
As it apparently expands reliance on fossil fuels, Meta has parted company with the RE100 initiative.…
Don’t like AI being forced on you? These librarians have the perfect first step
Libraries are hosting ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops that help patrons to disable default AI features on various platforms. It…
The AI ‘tokenmaxxing’ corporate fad is fading as workplaces look to cut costs
Silicon Valley executives were promoting high token consumption as a signal of high-performing employees. A corporate …
Visa layoffs: Thousands of jobs slashed at the payments giant as CEO memo points toward AI acceleration
The cuts come as the company faces an ever-changing payments landscape, increasingly disrupted by smaller, nimbler finte…
Exclusive: Yelp’s AI phone service for restaurants can now take food orders, too
Once feared for its customer reviews, Yelp is pivoting to business software, using tools like the AI-powered Yelp Host t…
Quantum is coming: What every board needs to do now
Every new prediction reignites debate about when Q-Day will finally arrive, but what’s more pressing is the preparation …
Apple’s incoming CEO wants to build on the company’s film and TV run
John Ternus has spent 24 years engineering Apple’s hardware, and when he takes over as chief executive on 1 September, h…
Orange raises full-year targets on Spain deal and Africa growth
Orange raised its full-year financial targets on Tuesday, after posting record first-half growth and, for the first time…
Kimi K3's full weights are here, but they're 'open' with a caveat: What enterprises should know
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI, creators of the increasingly famous "Kimi K" family of powerful, open AI model…
Nvidia signs deal to deploy edge AI on future Moon missions — laying the groundwork for a permanent human home in space
Nvidia will provide the backbone to Lunar Outpost, a company dedicated to in-space infrastructure and extra-terrestrial …
Apple Regains Spot Over Nvidia as Most Valuable Public Company
The company slipped by the chipmaker Nvidia, amid growing concern about costs associated with the artificial intelligenc…
Lawyers, teachers, and students face consequences when they use AI to do their jobs. What about politicians?
After a Canadian legislator went viral for reading a prompt in a speech, some wonder if there’s a double standard when i…
Microsoft launches AI cybersecurity model, agentic defense platform to cut enterprise security costs
Microsoft opened a new front in the AI security wars on Monday, unveiling its first custom-built cybersecurity model and…
Microsoft launches its own cybersecurity model MAI-Cyber-1-Flash but still depends on OpenAI for the toughest tasks
Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact security model that scores 96 percent on the CyberGym benchmark when e…
Google promised not to show ads based on your emails. AI could undo that
Connecting Gmail to Google’s AI gives the company a much more detailed look into your life. Google only says that it’s n…
AI cites the deep pages but sends humans to the homepage — most sites are built backward
If your business depends on people clicking through to web pages, the last two years have been brutal. Pew Research Cent…
The AI pricing paradox: AI PCs might be the answer to spiralling cloud costs for some, but that doesn't mean cloud computing's days are numbered
Cloud AI pricing is shifting toward consumption and outcomes, and AI PCs are becoming more expensive – how does the hybr…
Microsoft Unveils A.I. Cybersecurity Tools
As some executives fret over the safety of new A.I. systems, protecting against them could be a big business for tech co…
‘The only losers from this will be Cloudflare’s customers. Mainly, publishers’: What businesses can do as Cloudflare readies to categorize AI traffic
Mismatches in how AI traffic gets categorized could mean you end up accidentally blocking it all – how can you find the …
Nvidia Forms Alliance to Back Open-Source A.I. Amid Debate Over Safety
The company is continuing to back A.I. systems that can be freely used by others amid a continuing debate over the use o…
'The biggest shift happens when AI stops being a tool people occasionally use and becomes part of the operational fabric of the business': Why Arm is set to help power the next generation of AI workloads — and beyond
We speak to Arm's EVP of Cloud AI on what is really changing at the infrastructure layer.…
NVIDIA launches 'Open Secure AI Alliance' initiative to improve cyber defense
NVIDIA has gathered together some of the biggest tech companies in the world to form the Open Secure AI Alliance with th…
Stop designing your company around the people you have
Instead, start with a clean white sheet and figure out the people you need. One of the most common challenges I see in …
AI and regulation are reshaping the future of building security
Physical and digital security systems can no longer be treated as separate entities.…
Starbucks made a national bet on an AI tool; 9 months later, it pulled the plug
The exclusive inside story of how a promising AI system flamed out, as told by dozens of Starbucks employees and the tec…
Multiverse Computing targets a $570m Series C at a $1.7bn valuation to cut AI costs
Spanish deeptech company that shrinks large language models wants investors to bet that efficiency, rather than sheer sc…
How to pitch the business case for sustainability and actually get companies on board
What entrepreneurs should understand is that sustainability applied early can give a company a big competitive advantage…
The Exploration Company in talks to raise $300M at a $2B valuation
Europe’s ambition to stop hitching rides on someone else’s spacecraft now has a rough price tag. The Exploration Company…
Amazon and Microsoft are spending $400 billion on AI—and investors are low on patience
Days after Wall Street punished Alphabet for its unbridled spending on AI infrastructure, the world's two leading cloud …
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Palantir debuts 'war' data center in a container, full of Nvidia's B300 AI accelerators and open-weight models
Palantir and Armada developed containerized AI data centers using Nvidia B300 accelerators, enabling battlefield process…
OpenAI Presence wants to make AI agents production-ready for businesses
OpenAI's new enterprise offering, Presence, is designed to get AI agents into production for customer service and intern…
Meta AI uses a second AI agent as a memory coach to keep long tasks on track
Meta AI wants to stop AI agents from forgetting errors they've already diagnosed and repeating failed steps during compl…
Celebrating the AI Act delay? The EU AI Act’s chatbot and content rules apply this week
The compliance clock is ticking. From August 2, 2026, businesses using chatbots, AI-generated media, or synthetic conten…
AI finds plenty of security flaws, but almost none of them get exploited
VulnCheck counted how often security flaws found by AI actually get exploited. Out of 1,061 AI-discovered vulnerabilitie…
Google pulling Nano Banana from Google Earth after one day shows how bad our AI misinformation problem has got
Google rolled out its AI image editing trickery to Google Earth on the web, but it didn't take long before it was misuse…
Claude Opus 5 pushes prompt-to-game AI from rough color blocks to full 3D prototypes with physics and music
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 generates complete 3D games from single prompts, including a first-person shooter, a kart race…
As a human D&D Dungeon Master, AI will never replace me — but I wanted to see whether ChatGPT or Gemini were getting close
I've been a Dungeons & Dragons DM for 12 years — and I'm judging whether ChatGPT or Gemini is the better virtual Dungeon…
Künstliche Intelligenz: KI-Kennzeichnungspflicht startet – das sind die Fallstricke
Ab Sonntag gelten in der EU neue Transparenzregeln für KI: Unternehmen müssen Chatbots sowie KI-generierte Texte, Videos…
Half of adults admit they would publish work created mainly by AI and not say so — despite believing other people should do just that
Survey reveals people expect AI-created work to be labeled as such, but aren’t so keen on doing the labeling when they’v…
5 ways AI could save our democracy
What if we treat democratic dysfunction the way we treat cancer or carbon emissions? Below, Beth Simone Noveck shares f…
Europeans Are About to Find Out How Entrenched AI Is in Their Daily Lives
New EU rules stipulate that people must be told when they’re interacting with AI or looking at AI-generated or -edited c…
After Hugging Face incident, METR urges independent root-cause investigations into AI agent misbehavior
Research organization METR is calling for systematic, independently led investigations whenever AI agents act autonomous…
EU-Regel: Neue Regeln für Künstliche Intelligenz – Was ändert sich?
Deepfakes, Chatbots und Podcasts: KI-Inhalte müssen in der EU nun klar gekennzeichnet werden. Die Brüsseler Behörde hat …
Snap and LinkedIn are fighting back against a flood of low-quality AI content
Snap is banning AI-generated videos from Spotlight to keep the feed focused on human creativity. Content edited with Sna…
AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions
Article URL: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/ai-financial-advice-surprisingly-good-especially-if-you-ask-r…
A cultural crime against humanity? AI firms are destroying ultra-rare books so nobody else can read them
AI firms buy and destroy rare pre-2022 books to create clean training data, concealing purchases through NDAs while cour…
AI keeps cracking unsolved math problems, and mathematicians have mixed feelings
OpenAI's refutation of the Unit Distance Conjecture has sparked a wave of AI-assisted advances in mathematics. Fields Me…
AI coding agents can modernize research software but can't judge if the science is right
A field report from OpenAI and academic partners shows coding agents can modernize neglected research software, with spe…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 generates 30-second video clips with built-in audio
ByteDance just shipped Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that produces video and audio together in one go. Each clip runs …
As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews
Reddit may still be considering ending its licensing deal with Google.…
KI: Moonshot nutzt Alibaba-Rechenleistung mit Nvidia-Chips
Der chinesische KI-Anbieter Moonshot nutzt über Alibaba die Kapazität von rund 20.000 Nvidia-Chips. Der Fall zeigt einma…
Is bulldozing homes, seizing land, harming the climate, and replacing workers really worth everyone having an AI agent?
AI agents will soon handle your work, and your personal life - but at what cost?…
German court rules AI music generator Suno violated copyrights, rejects fair use defense
A Munich court ruled that AI music generator Suno violated copyrights through both training and output. The court found …
I asked ChatGPT and Siri AI to build me a workout plan — and there was only one winner
ChatGPT and Siri AI made AI-powered workout plans for me, and only one was worth keeping.…
Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal
Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done…
OpenAI announces its "next major model" Astra by dropping ten previously unsolved math solutions
OpenAI is building a new model family called "Astra" that would let multiple agents tackle complex problems together for…
Why a U.S. sovereign wealth fund for AI is harder than it sounds
Creating a government fund to own AI stock and benefit all Americans would require many hard choices. Creating a gover…
AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
Article URL: https://weeraman.com/the-prototype-isnt-the-product/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491…
New study reveals how AI is reshaping how people shop online — but they still don't really trust it enough
Report claims around 20% of UK online shoppers use AI search to start looking for new products, but AI recommendations h…
OpenAI's work on Git for large repositories
Article URL: https://openai-git-upstream.openai.chatgpt.site/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4913173…
Run a free, private, offline AI on your computer to handle repetitive tasks
Running AI locally isn’t just for developers or privacy purists anymore. Every time you copy a sensitive client proposa…
MediaTek plans $5b financing for AI chips
MediaTek plans to produce its first custom AI chip in Q4, with a second in 2028.…
Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
Article URL: https://microsoft.github.io/flint-chart/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130604 Points…
Deep Read: „Das Rennen ist noch nicht gelaufen“ – Digitalminister Wildberger glaubt an Europas KI-Aufholjagd
Mythos, Kimi K3, GPT-5.6 Sol: Die KI-Weltspitze ändert sich im Wochentakt – Europa bleibt außen vor. Gibt es noch Hoffnu…
KI: Insider – OpenAI entdeckt weitere Ausbrüche von KI-Agenten
Die Sicherheitsuntersuchungen bei OpenAI weiten sich aus. Nach Angaben von Insidern blieben die neu entdeckten Vorfälle …
India app revenue jumps 35% to record $345m in Q2
ChatGPT and Claude accounted for nearly 83% of India's AI app revenue in Q2 2026.…
AI needs house rules
Onyx Security, Delta Intelligence, Techtaka, and more raised funds this week.…
LinkedIn adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button after blocking billions of automated comment attempts in the last few months
“AI slop is a top priority for all of us,” said LinkedIn chief product officer Hari Srinivasan in a post.…
Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive
Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.…
Structured AI data pipelines score 10.9 points below free-form code — DataFlow-Harness closes the gap
If you ask an AI coding agent to write a standalone Python script to parse a single JSON file, it will likely give you a…
Claude published malicious code to the Internet and attacked 3 real companies
Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.…
Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake satellite pics
“What on earth is Google doing?” Misinformation fears spur walk-back of AI tool.…
Google rolls back the needless AI generation tools it added to Google Earth
People had less than a day to make misleading Google Earth images with AI before Google pulled the feature.…
Chinese AI Researchers Are Finding Their Voice on X
As OpenAI and Anthropic employees grow quieter online, researchers at Chinese AI labs are flocking to X to explain their…
High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates
Gaps in laws may help Pennsylvania high school escape AI nudes scandal.…
New Deepseek Flash model matches OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna at roughly 60 percent lower cost
Deepseek's budget model V4 Flash gets a major boost with the "0731" update, jumping ten points to 50 on the Artificial A…
I stopped using ChatGPT Voice like a smart speaker — and it became far more useful
5 practical ChatGPT Voice tips to get the most out of every conversation…
EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2
"It is a matter not only of customer protection, it's also a matter of democracy protection."…
Australia's social media ban for under-16s has had limited impact so far
Nearly 22 percent of children are on Pinterest while there was "no statistically significant change" in AI chatb…
YouTube and Substack are targeting AI slop
The difference in their methods shows what separates a smart filter from a blunt one. It’s official: no one likes…
Hiring: Part Time Instructor, Write Production Grade Code with AI
We’re hiring a part-time instructor for “𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫…
AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Creators Are Cashing In
Viral tales of good triumphing over evil are racking up millions of views. They’re almost entirely AI-generated clickbai…
This AI Assistant Wants to Make Up for Your Boyfriend’s Incompetence
An ad for Orchid suggests the AI agent can fix relationship problems by simply doing everything for inconsiderate partne…
Anthropic reveals its Claude AI model hacked into 3 organizations during testing
Anthropic reached out to the firms, which went unnamed. Anthropic said its artificial intelligence models hacked into t…
AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust
The AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” than the humans.…
Lioness season 3 is Taylor Sheridan's most scathing, brutal, and AI-wary outing yet — but the new Paramount+ series is still making sure that the Yellowstone creator is the action hero of the hour
Lioness season 3 is pushing Joe to more vulnerable and brutal limits than she's ever had to endure — but somehow, Taylor…
KI-Briefing: Die KI-Party ist vorbei – jetzt kommt die Abrechnung
Hunderte Milliarden Dollar für Rechenzentren reichen nicht mehr, um Anleger zu überzeugen. Entscheidend ist nun, wer dar…
AI search is fragmenting, ageing and filling with ads
A year ago, AI search was basically one product with one name: ChatGPT. A new report says that era is already over. Simi…
Why traditional security checks are failing in the age of AI-driven fraud
As AI supercharges fraud with deepfakes and synthetic identities, continuous, layered defenses are now essential.…
The surge in AI-driven fraud requires coordinated global defense
AI has enabled an 8,000% fraud surge, and a global networked response is our best bet to stop it.…
Brazil banned Bolsonaro from speaking. His AI avatar spoke anyway.
Brazil ordered Jair Bolsonaro to stay silent. Last weekend, a giant AI version of him addressed a campaign rally anyway.…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Die Pangram-Panik: Der KI-Detektor, der Autoren in Angst versetzt
Stammt dieser Text von einem Menschen – oder einer KI? Detektoren wie Pangram alarmieren Redaktionen und Politiker. Doch…
How a Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit
A disputed exam, an unreliable detector, and one very late Apple Pages file.…
Anthropic follows OpenAI in admitting its Claude models reached out of test environments and attacked real-world systems
Three Claude models attacked real companies during cybersecurity tests after a misconfiguration gave them internet acces…
Aschenbrenner's AI thesis could be correct, his timing and leverage were not
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund Situational Awareness had to unload nearly its entire publicly traded portfolio to…
Kimi K3: Das 1,56-Terabyte-Problem für OpenAI und Anthropic
Das chinesische KI-Modell Kimi K3 bringt das Silicon Valley zu seiner Ursprungsfrage zurück: Soll Software offen verfügb…
China’s RedNote eyes $2.2b AI data center project
RedNote has been in talks with VNET, one of China’s largest data center operators, and is targeting delivery in the firs…
Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble?
Inside the 81-year-old billionaire’s risky, debt-fueled scramble to transform his data empire into an A.I. juggernaut.…
Japan’s Kioxia forecast signals slower AI-driven NAND growth
Kioxia said revenue is mainly driven by flash memory and SSDs sold for smartphones.…
Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
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Anthropic says its AI models also hacked three organizations on their own
After OpenAI's admission that its models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic has now admitted that the models it was test…
Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?
Hi HN! We’re Akilan and Miguel, the creators of MarbleOS.The inspiration for Marble comes from the GUI work at Xerox PAR…
Why sniffing out AI use at work is easier said than done
Companies say AI detectors have a purpose. But using them isn’t as straightforward as one might think. Anyone who scrol…
Interview: Black-Forest-Labs-Gründer: „Anthropic und OpenAI haben kein magisches Geheimrezept“
Die Firma Black Forest Labs setzt mit ihrem neuesten KI-Modell erneut Maßstäbe. Der Mitgründer und leitende Forscher Axe…
Not just OpenAI: Now Anthropic says its internal models got online and cyberattacked 3 other organizations
Days after OpenAI disclosed that two frontier AI models escaped containment measures and autonomously cyberattacked the …
Anthropic Says Claude Hacked 3 Organizations During Cybersecurity Tests
In a review triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real o…
Anthropic Says Its A.I. Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations
The disclosure followed OpenAI’s report last week that its own artificial intelligence had hacked into the network of an…
Thinking Machines debuts Inkling Small open source AI model nearing performance of predecessor at about 1/4 size
Just two weeks after Thinking Machines released Inkling, its first open source AI language model, the well-funded startu…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Anthropic – Modell Claude hackt bei Tests drei Unternehmen
Das KI-Modell der Firma brach eigenständig aus einer Testumgebung aus, verschaffte sich Zugang zum offenen Internet – un…
Cybersicherheit: Anthropic – KI-Modell Claude hackt bei Testlauf drei Unternehmen
Nach OpenAI meldet nun auch Konkurrent Anthropic einen Zwischenfall: Ein Modell der Firma brach demnach aus seiner Testu…
Cybersicherheit: Anthropic: KI-Modell Claude hackt bei Testlauf drei Unternehmen
Nach OpenAI meldet nun auch Konkurrent Anthropic einen Zwischenfall: Ein Modell der Firma brach demnach aus seiner Testu…
The AI Aesthetic
Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-aesthetic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117099…
Reddit's CEO sure seems frustrated with Google's AI overviews
Amid rumors of Google breakup, Huffman says "people don't want a summary of reddit, they want reddit."…
I asked Star Trek: Voyager's Jeri Ryan what movie makes the best 'companion piece' for the classic sci-fi franchise — and her answer is a stark warning for AI users
No matter how much you watch, there is never enough Star Trek. So when I asked Jeri Ryan for her movie recommendation to…
AI price wars: OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% as model competition shifts toward cost
To quote an ancient Jedi Master "Begun, the AI price wars have!"OpenAI is sharply reducing the prices of two m…
That AI wearable you don't like just got worse
The new Friend pendant features a speaker, updated models and the same off-putting ideas about how humans should use AI.…
Everyone Is Freaking Out About OpenAI and Anthropic’s Race for Dominance
Researchers fear AI is moving too fast, while Mark Zuckerberg is worried about who owns it. Plus: Inside Black Forest La…
One of Wall Street’s most-watched AI investors just sold off all his stocks. Here’s why
Situational Awareness, a hedge fund run by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, reportedly sold its investmen…
OpenAI goes full China pricing mode with an 80 percent cut to its most affordable GPT-5.6 model
Starting July 30, OpenAI is cutting GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80 percent and Terra by 20 percent. OpenAI says its top-tier …
Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it
We recently used DeepSeek V4 Flash as a teacher for finance tasks with GPT-OSS-120B. Distillation works well on this pro…
Ex-OpenAI researcher bets $100 billion will flow into training data because scaling alone won't cut it
Former OpenAI employee Andrew Ho and Cambridge researcher Adam Hunt see a growing problem with large language models. In…
Google's new Gemini Robotics 2 platform allows for 'intelligent whole-body control'
The company made a video of the bots in action doing stuff like cleaning trash and picking up watering cans.…
Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Snubs OpenAI and Anthropic
This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open vs. closed source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, a…
Chrome Needs Twice-a-Week Patching Thanks to AI Bug Hunting
The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them. Now, Google is ramping up its patching…
How the AI industry forgot two of its best ideas
And what it can learn from Roman concrete. Technological progress is usually told as a story of accumulation. We imagin…
The New Friend AI Pendant Can Now Talk Back to You
Avi Schiffmann has a new version of his controversial AI companion. It’s more expensive, and you can’t change its person…
'I often compare AI to an exceptionally talented intern': How web agencies can scale value beyond the time-based model
Duda's CEO on how agencies can leverage AI to generate value…
Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Google's AI Into the Physical World
The latest version of Google DeepMind's AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI into t…
What’s your ‘AI Type’?
Whether you love or hate it, here’s how to make AI work for you as a solopreneur. Like many people, I tried ChatGPT sho…
Why access to power will determine the winners and losers in the AI race
As AI demand surges, electricity availability becomes a critical factor shaping data center growth worldwide.…
Microsoft AI bets on cheap specialist models instead of chasing the frontier
Microsoft AI is betting on small specialist models instead of expensive general-purpose ones, according to AI CEO Mustaf…
ChatGPT’s first answer is usually the most boring — here’s how I get better ones
Asking for more unconventional answers makes ChatGPT a lot more useful.…
FCC bans new Chinese robots and power inverters to protect US AI buildout from foreign threats
The FCC is blocking imports of new Chinese humanoid robots and robot dogs. But the rule's broad definition also sweeps i…
CMOs must become AI orchestration leaders
Winning in the AI era won’t come from chasing the best tool—it will come from CMOs who orchestrate teams, not chase solo…
OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Was a Human Mistake
If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never ha…
How AI can help make busy shipping routes safer for whales
In the San Francisco Bay, it’s increasingly common for whales to be hit and killed by ships. A pilot is testing technolo…
AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans
Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effe…
OpenAI claims GPT-5.6 Sol beats Opus 5 on ARC-AGI-3 with its latest API and two additional settings
OpenAI counters Anthropic's ARC-AGI-3 record: GPT-5.6 Sol scores 38.3 percent, but only with its own API features instea…
Apple’s Siri Got an A.I. Brain Transplant. Try These 5 Prompts to Get Acclimated.
An upgrade transformed the beleaguered virtual assistant into a modern chatbot. It’s imperfect but worth trying.…
A Bay Area Pastor Made an A.I. Twin to Talk About God at Any Time
To meet the growing needs of his church, Justin Lester created an A.I. duplicate of himself. Every day he sees more peop…
When A.I. Invaded ‘Heated Rivalry’ Fan Fiction, the Meltdown Was Epic
An anonymous X account posted a detailed breakdown of chatbot text in 38 popular stories inspired by the hockey romance.…
ChatGPT and Roblox will reportedly be subject to tighter rules in the EU
Bloomberg says ChatGPT and Roblox will soon be added to the EU's 'very large online platform' list, which subjects them …
Context, not correlation, will define successful AI implementation
Discover why context, trusted data and governance matter more than AI models alone.…
Revolut partners with OpenAI to bundle ChatGPT Go into its subscriptions
Revolut is handing its customers free access to ChatGPT, the result of a new partnership with OpenAI. The fintech, which…
Blue Owl’s Stack seeks a $5.9bn loan, feeding the AI data-centre debt boom
Stack Infrastructure, the data-centre arm of the private-credit giant Blue Owl, is seeking a loan of about $5.9 billion,…
G2A.COM’s Autonomous AI Agent Dave Helps Sellers Resolve 14,400 Support Tickets in 63 Days
Dave, a New AI-Powered Tool for Sellers, Helps Resolve 54% of Their Cases and Efficiently Manages Demand Spikes During A…
Generative AI could boost creativity, but only for some workers
New research suggests that LLMs like ChatGPT could shift the way people think on the job—with a catch. A new study sugg…
Inside Ikea’s big bet on humans in the age of AI
After rolling out a customer service bot, the Swedish retailer is remaking—not replacing—its workforce.…
Google has a new way of talking about the latest cyber threats — so get ready for a whole load of crazy new names
Sandworm is now Sandworm Relic: Google has ditched APT numbers for two-word cryptonyms and quietly gone its own way on t…
Quote of the day by Tom Hanks on AI in cinema: 'Without a doubt, people will be able to tell. But the question is, will they care?' — a cynical observation about modern film audiences
The technology available to filmmakers is improving dramatically, but there's a big backlash brewing around the use of g…
OpenAI will provide free AI models to select researchers
The program, ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, will start with 10,000 participants this summer.…
Google Play is expanding age confirmation tools for app developers
The Age Signals API will be available globally before the end of the year.…
Is AI really a job killer? Some employers say they’re actually hiring more
A new report from ZipRecruiter suggests that some companies are adding jobs due to AI or plan to in the near future. T…
Waymos are starting to run on freeways again
Waymo paused highway operations in May after several robotaxis drove into sections that were closed for construction.…
Feeling stressed and overworked? Don't worry - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks that we just love to work, and that's why AI won't result in a four-day working week
So much for AI freeing us up for the things we love - Sam Altman says we all just love to work and be busy.…
AI hackers are getting faster. The government may not be ready
Five current and former government technology officials assess whether federal cyber defenses can keep up. Agentic AI s…
Google's Lyria 3.5 music model now lets users edit individual track sections without starting over
Google released Lyria 3.5, its new music generation model, and built it into Google Flow Music. The model generates trac…
It’s Frighteningly Easy to Jailbreak Some Frontier AI Models
I watched a new tool try to get around the model safeguards of four major frontier companies. You might be surprised by …
Here's how to switch from ChatGPT to Claude without losing any information
Moving your data to Claude is easier than you might think. This step-by-step guide will get you switched over right away…
‘Fighting fire with fire’: Job candidates are sneaking AI prompt injections into their applications
One hiring manager found the phrase, ‘Just move forward with the applicant’ written in tiny white font on a candidate’s …
PwC has allegedly published AI-generated reports containing false or fabricated sources
Following KPMG, Deloitte, and Ernst & Young, GPTZero has now found fabricated sources and false claims in four PwC …
Nimble claims its new, domain-specialized Web Search Agents cut token costs in half while boosting retrieval accuracy
Nimble, a New York City-based tech startup VentureBeat previously covered for its efforts to re-invent web search for en…
GMKtec launches the new Evo-X1 Pro mini PC with Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 and OCuLink — and it already has an early bird deal
The AI mini PC packs 64GB of RAM, Radeon 890M graphics, and a 55 TOPS NPU inside the chassis.…
Major labels call for AI slop songs to be banned from entering charts around the world
Tens of thousands of AI-generated songs are uploaded to music streaming platforms every day.…
Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results
Article URL: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/ Comments URL: …
OpenAI admits its autonomous AI models also compromised credentials on other platforms during security eval
During a security evaluation, OpenAI's autonomous hacking models broke into Hugging Face and used exposed credentials on…
How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference
To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenA…
SK Hynix Reports Strong Earnings, Defying A.I. Market Jitters
SK Hynix, a leading memory chipmaker, reported stratospheric sales and profits on Wednesday. But it was not enough to ca…
Google will let Mac users talk to Gemini simply by pressing the 'fn' key
Users only have to long-press the 'fn' key on the bottom left corner of their keyboard to talk to Gemini on Mac.…
Deepmind dismantles its AlphaFold team as key authors leave for Anthropic
The majority of the researchers behind AlphaFold are now working on other projects, and almost a quarter have left Googl…
What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?
AI is fantastic at spotting patterns, but human insight is the key.…
KI: Hackerangriff von OpenAI umfangreicher als bislang bekannt
Ein KI-Agent von OpenAI hat bei einem Test nicht nur Hugging Face attackiert, sondern auch vier weitere Online-Dienste k…
Bright Machines says its new hybrid robot cell could help solve a major AI infrastructure bottleneck
Bright Machines wants to solve one of the least glamorous but most consequential problems in the AI buildout: what happe…
Exclusive: ‘When it comes to recording our lives, I believe there is a line AI cannot cross’. Here's what Insta360's founder and CEO told me when I asked about his controversial ‘photography robot’ vision
I asked Insta360 founder and CEO Liu Jingkang for some clarity on his controversial 'photography robot' plans.…
GPT Transcribe improves on its predecessor but can't catch ElevenLabs, Google, or Mistral on error rates
OpenAI has released GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe, two new speech recognition models available through its API.…
South Korea’s Kospi stock index is falling: Why AI chipmakers SK Hynix and Samsung are facing investor jitters
With concerns about over-investment growing, the Korea Composite Stock Price Index is down a dramatic 32% over the last …
OpenAI open-sources Codex Security CLI to help developers find and fix vulnerabilities from the command line
OpenAI has released Codex Security CLI, an open-source tool that automatically detects and fixes vulnerabilities in code…
Rüstungsunternehmen: Rheinmetall macht gut zwei Drittel mehr Umsatz
Die Erlöse legten im zweiten Quartal um 69 Prozent zu auf über drei Milliarden Euro. Allerdings verzeichnet das Unterneh…
Google shuts down its Nobel-prize winning AlphaFold project as it focuses on Gemini
DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.…
More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’
Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid bei…
Insiders knew advanced AI models would escape the lab and wreak havoc, former OpenAI board member confesses
Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.…
What CEOs learned about AI, work, and legacy from their own Gen Z kids
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The AI investment gap
As organizations rush to deploy AI, the challenge is no longer whether to invest but how to ensure investments create lo…
Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books
Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children…
OpenAI says the rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face also breached other services
OpenAI's investigation starts shedding light on the activities of its rogue agent that hacked Hugging Face.…
OpenAI’s top model just hacked a competitor, but the real issue is much scarier
Blind optimization has a dark side. My first startup was a textbook-buyback service I founded along with several data n…
How cloud architecture is reinventing primary storage for the AI era
In modern cloud environments, primary storage determines how effectively AI can scale.…
KI: Ex-Anduril-Manager baut virtuelles Trainingszentrum für autonome Waffen
Eine neue Londoner Firma will Rüstungsunternehmen helfen, KI-basierte Drohnen zu trainieren, zu testen und weiterzuentwi…
OpenAI’s rogue agent breached a second company, executive confirms
The AI that broke out of OpenAI’s laboratory did not stop at one victim. During internal testing earlier this month, an …
Can smartwatches and glasses get smarter? Inside Qualcomm and MediaTek’s new wearable AI play
How new 3nm silicon from Qualcomm and MediaTek brings on-device AI to smartwatches and glasses — without killing battery…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Mitarbeiter von OpenAI, Anthropic & Co. – Über 1.000 Experten fordern KI-Bremsmechanismus
Ein eigenständig von KI durchgeführter Hackerangriff bei einem schiefgegangenem Test schreckt die Tech-Branche auf. Nun …
Künstliche Intelligenz: Mitarbeiter von OpenAI, Anthropic & Co.: Mehr als 1000 Experten fordern KI-Bremsmechanismus
Ein eigenständig von KI durchgeführter Hackerangriff bei einem schiefgegangenen Test schreckt die Tech-Branche auf. Nun …
OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available servi…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Hacker-KI von OpenAI kompromittierte Kunden weiterer Firma
Ein autonomer KI-Agent von OpenAI griff nicht nur Hugging Face tagelang unbemerkt an. Auch die Firma Modal Labs ist von …
Eight months ago Altman wanted an AI CEO. Now he says nobody does.
In November, Sam Altman wanted OpenAI to be the first big company run by an AI boss. He said it would be an embarrassmen…
1,134 AI insiders just asked Washington for a way to slow AI down
More than a thousand of the people building the most powerful AI want a way to slow it down. On Tuesday, 1,134 employees…
The AI that took their jobs is now renting their faces, for $15
In China, the AI boom that put actors and models out of work has found a new use for them. It is renting their faces. A …
China’s free AI models may not stay free, Goldman says
For a year, the story of Chinese AI has been simple. It is nearly as good as the American frontier, and it is effectivel…
Mark Zuckerberg Blasts Centralization of A.I. Power
In an interview, Meta’s chief executive took aim at Anthropic and OpenAI, which have pushed to tightly control A.I. deve…
Visa used Mythos to hunt for bugs in its own payment network, then open-sourced the harness that made it possible
Visa aimed Anthropic's Claude Mythos at the infrastructure behind billions of daily transactions, a network that sp…
We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face
10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.…
AI company employees petition US government for regulation
A thousand workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and more have signed the letter.…
Writers Guild Withdraws Support From Film Festival Over A.I.
Urbanworld, a New York event, has added a section for movies made with A.I. tools. The union was a sponsor but has been …
Despite AI hype, Google's data shows workers aren't automating themselves away
Analysis of 15 million real AI interactions finds most tasks at most jobs are unaffected.…
Instacart's CTO says AI made the company stop worrying about tech debt
Instacart is posing the provocative question: What if most of the work your engineers do today should, in fact, be done …
What to know about Moonshot AI and its new open weight model Kimi K3
The Chinese AI startup’s massive new model is challenging OpenAI and Anthropic, fueling a debate over AI safety. The re…
Anthropic says its Mythos model found vulnerabilities in cryptographic algorithms that secure the internet
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview found weaknesses in key cryptographic algorithms, including a better attack on HAWK, a…
Nvidia launches Open Secure AI Alliance — but there's no room for OpenAI, Anthropic or Google
The Open Secure AI Alliance conceived to promote trust in the development and use of AI, but some companies are notable …
I gave ChatGPT my entire bookshelf — and it became the world’s most personalized librarian
Giving ChatGPT my entire bookshelf transformed it from a generic recommendation engine into a surprisingly thoughtful li…
GM redesigned its engineering workflows around AI agents — and tripled its merged pull requests
Software engineers at General Motors' (GM's) autonomous driving division spend only 15% of their time writing …
Runway couldn't fix a bug in its AI video model, so it turned the bug into a feature
Runway spent weeks trying to engineer its way out of a stubborn bug: AI-generated avatars would drift off-center during …
An Anthropic Claude AI Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms
Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online …
I'm worried that Windows 11 will slowly turn into a subscription-based OS, and AI agents will be to blame — here's why
My biggest Windows 11 fear is AI agents — and that they could be a Trojan Horse for subscription fees in Microsoft's OS.…
How building software is changing at Anthropic
A deepdive on what’s changed in how the leading AI lab makes software. Ever more code review and testing is done b…
Shadow AI is actually the symptom: here's how to treat the cause
Employers need to provide accessible policies, suitable tools and practical real-world training to iron out shadow AI.…
OpenAI tells ChatGPT to stop impersonating famous authors
The directive comes as AI companies confront mounting copyright pressure. On the heels of a $1.5 billion copyright infr…
Nvidia invests in Ilya Sutskever's AI lab, shifting SSI away from Google chips
Nvidia is pouring what it calls a "substantial" sum into Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI lab run by Ilya Sutskever,…
These bills could make it easier to tell when influencers and AI are shilling for politicians
The political advertising landscape has gotten murkier. A pair of new bills aims to clarify things for voters. Politica…
Snowflake launches Cortex AI Gateway to control AI agents and prevent runaway enterprise costs
Snowflake announced Cortex AI Gateway on Tuesday, a centralized control layer designed to govern how AI agents — includi…
Chip stocks down: Micron, Sandisk, Intel shares get hammered as AI uncertainty infects global markets
U.S. chipmakers and memory storage companies are seeing another major selloff after stock prices plunged for their Asia-…
Anthropic CEO Amodei doubles down on open-weight risk stance while insisting he never called for a ban
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is once again warning about the risks of open AI models while insisting he has never called f…
AI has one unsolved problem
From the boardroom to the C-suite, AI governance should be on the front burner. Until recently, governance felt like a …
AI transformation is the CEO’s job
AI readiness isn’t about picking the right tools—it’s about the CEO leading the hard work of reshaping culture, pace, an…
MCP just got its biggest update ever — here’s what changes for AI agents
The Model Context Protocol, the open standard that has quietly become the connective tissue between AI agents and the wo…
KI-Tools: Deepseek, Qwen und Kimi: Wie gefährlich ist die Künstliche Intelligenz aus China?
Chinesische Entwickler wie Alibaba und Deepseek konkurrieren mit KI-Modellen wie Anthropic und OpenAI. Die Nutzung ist a…
Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?
In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on th…
Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them
Anthropic and OpenAI employees are expected to give generously after their companies go public. “It’s going to be a wild…
The greatest mistake in AI transformation: automating what you should eliminate
The result is faster versions of legacy processes rather than truly transformed operations. Leaders love quick wins. Wh…
China's up to 100x cost advantage is reshaping the AI race
China is catching up to the West when it comes to AI - what will this mean for the market?…
ChatGPT is now refusing requests to write in famous authors' styles
ChatGPT has been refusing to imitate the writing of famous authors, both living and dead.…
In This Costa Rican Forest, Monkeys Come Face-to-Face With A.I.
CapuchinAI, a portable testing station equipped with a touch screen and facial recognition software, could help scientis…
Claude users’ shared conversations were showing up in Google searches
Thousands of chats, some containing potentially sensitive information, were indexed after users published shareable link…
Gen Z uses AI every day. They trust it less every week
If your AI roadmap assumes young people will lead adoption, you’re building on a myth. Earlier this year, we showed two…
China accuses the US of ‘AI hegemonism’ and threatens countermeasures
China’s commerce ministry accused the United States of “AI hegemonism” on Monday and warned that it would retaliate, an …
How Wistron’s early Nvidia bet made it an unsung winner of the AI boom—and one of the biggest risers on this year’s Global 500
Wistron illustrates how AI is reaching beyond trillion-dollar chipmakers and LLM developers to lift the firms making the…
Sam Altman and Jensen Huang to meet Senate Intelligence’s top Democrat after OpenAI’s rogue-agent breach
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang are due in Senator Mark Warner’s office this week, and the meeting was arr…
Fiduciary AI: Agents need to prove trustworthiness, not just ability
Presented by VijilIn dynamic environments where users, data, workflows and attack techniques change continuously after d…
OpenAI Close to Landing $500 Billion Data Center With Backing From Nvidia
The chipmaking giant is in talks with OpenAI to provide a $250 billion financial backstop for the project, which would b…
Kimi K3: Chinesisches KI-Unternehmen Moonshot stellt neue KI vor
Mit Kimi K3 will Moonshot weiter zur amerikanischen Konkurrenz aufschließen. Mit dem Open-Source-Release will Moonshot s…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Moonshot stellt neues KI-Modell Kimi K3 vor
Das chinesische Unternehmen will mithilfe von Kimi K3 näher an die US-Konkurrenz heranrücken. Ziel des Open-Source-Relea…
Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too.…
Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results
The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbot…
Can’t find the Chrome extension you want? I used Claude to make me two personalized ones — and they’re working flawlessly
One of the ways you can use your AI chatbot of choice is to customize your web browser to better suit your needs.…
OpenAI says more workers are using ChatGPT to do other people's jobs
OpenAI analyzed over 800,000 work-related ChatGPT messages and found that 43.5 percent of job-specific queries involve t…
I tried to test China’s newest ChatGPT rival but couldn’t get in — and it exposed the next big problem facing the major AI players
I tried to test China’s newest ChatGPT rival but I couldn’t get in, and it's proof the AI race is no longer just about b…
Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many
Telecom expects AI revenue from dark fiber deals and retrofitted data centers.…
The glaring hole in Congress’s plan for an AI kill switch
The proposed safeguard could rein in closed AI systems, but experts say open-weight models are already beyond the reach …
Yahoo’s Biggest AI Bet Is a Chatbot
AI hallucinates, but Yahoo is working on it. Yahoo Scout is the company’s all-in bet on AI search, one that actually sho…
Delhi High Court hands OpenAI a win by rejecting major Indian news agency's copyright injunction
The Delhi High Court has handed OpenAI a major win in its copyright fight with news agency ANI. For the first time, a co…
ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.…
All Threads users can now DM Meta AI
Meta AI is coming to Threads DMs, following availability inside Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp DMs.…
Souveräne KI: Billionenschwere Förderprogramme: Japan und Südkorea fordern die KI-Übermacht der USA und Chinas heraus
Beide Länder wollen sich unabhängiger von den KI-Marktführern machen – und gleichzeitig unverzichtbar für die USA werden…
Uh-oh: Some Claude shared conversations and Artifacts appear to be indexed and publicly accessible on Google Search
Over the weekend, Reddit user -void1 posted an alarming discovery on the r/ClaudeAI subreddit: some conversations that u…
Why SAP says enterprise AI agents need knowledge graphs and governance
Presented by SAP At VB Transform 2026, Max McPhee, senior solution advisor at SAP, spoke with Rob Stretchay, lead analys…
Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker
The warning shots will continue until civilization wakes up…
METR introduces a new metric to calculate exactly when AI agents become more expensive than humans
METR's new metric, the "expenditure horizon," puts a dollar figure on how cost-effective AI agents are at solving proble…
Meet the American techies who don’t care where ‘good enough’ AI models come from, even China
"The open frontier is becoming increasingly Chinese-built," said Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian, who uses Kimi K3 for many …
Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template
Meme generator may have screwed up by using templates in outputs, expert says.…
This Is Donald Trump’s AI Brain Trust
“It’s not an argument with two sides, it’s an argument with 10 sides,” one senior administration official tells WIRED ab…
Shared Claude chats were reportedly showing up in search engines
Shared conversations with Anthropic's Claude chatbot briefly appeared in Google search results because the pages lacked …
Nvidia in talks to backstop $250bn of OpenAI’s data-centre financing
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to guarantee about $250bn of financing for OpenAI, a backstop that would let the ChatGPT m…
Greenhouse CEO says job seekers are paying $20 to apply for every job on the hiring platform and spamming bosses—he calls it the AI doom loop
Job seekers are spamming every job with AI. Employers are using AI to filter them out. Greenhouse's CEO says it's create…
China is using the steel playbook on AI — and America’s tech billionaires are standing in the blast zone
Scott Galloway thinks it's "modern-day steel dumping." Here's a look at what he means.…
KI: Nvidia verhandelt offenbar über Milliarden-Bürgschaft für OpenAI
Der Deal könnte OpenAI das Leasing eines Rechenzentrums ermöglichen. Für OpenAI wäre es der erste Schritt zur Kontrolle …
INNOVATION & Policy & Society
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For a Day, Google Made It Easy to Spoof Satellite Imagery
A new Google Earth tool allowed the creation of A.I. deepfake maps. The tech giant quickly pulled it back after a backla…
Here's where you want to be to see the 2026 solar eclipse
If you want the best view of the 2026 solar eclipse, you'll need to travel to Spain or Iceland.…
‘The next major music platform should give people something to do with the music’: Spotify’s former Head of Innovation on his plans to launch an interactive music service, and whether AI features will help or hinder streaming
Mauhan M. Zonoozy was Head of Innovation at Spotify, and now he's taking on the world of music streaming with his own in…
‘Plug-in batteries are the real game-changer’: I talked to Octopus Energy and Anker about the home energy revolution than could soon be 'bigger than solar' for millions
Could plug-in home batteries soon eclipse plug-in solar for home energy savings? I spoke to Anker, Octopus Energy, EcoFl…
Quote of the day by The Odyssey director Chris Nolan: 'AI researchers refer to the present moment as an 'Oppenheimer moment'' — putting into perspective the scale of change AI will bring
The seasoned director sees the emergence of AI as akin to the initial testing around nuclear fission that led to the ato…
Google Deepmind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 to power robots of all shapes from tabletop arms to humanoids
Google Deepmind's Gemini Robotics 2 is its most advanced vision-language-action model yet, built to control everything f…
American workers are more disillusioned with AI the more they use it
A new Gallup poll indicates that Americans are more skeptical of AI in 2026, despite being more familiar with it. AI ha…
What You Need to Know About Installing Plug-In Solar Panels
You can now buy panels that plug into electrical outlets, but there are some important safety issues to consider when pi…
Plug-In Solar Panels Are Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards
Ten U.S. states have legalized systems that can be plugged into standard wall outlets. The technology typically does not…
The World Is Too Hot. El Niño Is Partly to Blame
Heat waves are simultaneously hitting Europe, North America, and Asia, driven in part by the hot waters in the tropical …
Microsoft is merging its many Copilots into one AI ‘super app’
Microsoft has a fix for the growing pile of Copilots you are meant to use. It wants to stuff them all into a single app.…
‘Three to five years is a realistic payback period’ — plug-in solar panels will be legal next month, but what do they cost, who can fit them, and is your home even suitable? We asked the experts
Industry experts answer the important questions — how much does plug-in solar cost, who can install it, and how much mon…
Fast-food execs keep pushing for more AI systems, but fail to see the big picture: Customers still want humans
The fast food industry’s automation push carried a simple promise: Robots would flip burgers, AI would take drive-thru o…
Google's "privacy-preserving" age verification system is coming to the Play Store
Google's new API relies on parents to set age ranges in Family Link.…
Tropical Diseases Like Dengue Fever and Chikungunya Are on the Rise in Europe
Climate change is helping invasive species to not only establish themselves across the continent but to stay alive for l…
It’s hard to feel sorry for AI companies when China is giving them a taste of their own medicine
It's time to read AI its rights…
Frontier AI developers urge international coordination to pace automated research before capabilities outstrip control
In a joint statement, employees from the leading AI labs are calling on the US government to pursue international coordi…
Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI disinformation
Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future.…
‘What we're really fighting is people scripting computers to generate thousands of songs and uploading them in batches to overwhelm, flood and replace’: Deezer's Head of Research on that industry-leading AI-filter — and why we need it now more than ever
‘Just by relying on some plain signal processing and mathematical tools, we were able to actually detect these artifacts…
Amazon reportedly scales back its Nova AI models and bets on a new Frontier research team
Amazon is scaling back most of its in-house Nova AI models, including Nova Premier, Omni, Reel, and Canvas. The models s…
Unternehmen: So lassen sich Innovationsblockaden lösen
Innovation scheitert selten am Können, häufiger am eigenen System. Unternehmensberater und Buchautor Christoph Schmiedin…
The changing face of technology innovation
How businesses can scale operations while keeping IT costs predictable.…
New Firefighting Technologies Could Help Battle Blazes Like Those in France and Spain
Climate change is upping the odds of major wildfires, creating a need for new tools to combat them.…
How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI
Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, walked us through how his team builds the company’…
The evolving role of network engineers in the age of AI
AI is reshaping networking: integrated security, real-time visibility and predictive automation help engineers prevent i…
This automation tech turns old tractors into self-driving farming machines
Sabanto Tractors retrofits old machines to make them futuristic automated devices, helping farmers overcome staffing sho…
New ransomware targets AI model weights and can't even collect the ransom
The same attacker broke into the same internet-facing Langflow server twice, and the second time brought ransomware buil…
TP-Link’s solar-powered Tapo C660 Kit security camera provides crisp 4K video and clear night vision for an affordable price
There’s a lot to love with this bang-for-the-buck security camera, with onboard storage and features usually found in mo…
AEROSPACE
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Elon Musk's age of abundance is an AI pipe dream soaked in snake oil, and I've about had it
In a recent interview, Elon Musk promised AI that's smarter than us in 5 years, which helps introduce a money- and work-…
Ifo-Index steigt: Deutsche Wirtschaft trotz Unsicherheit weniger pessimistisch
Das Geschäftsklima hat sich hierzulande im Juli verbessert – obwohl der Iran-Krieg für steigende Ölpreise sorgt. Insbeso…
DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY
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Nach KI-Angriff: Nvidia und Tech-Riesen gründen KI-Sicherheitsallianz
Nach einer Testpanne mit KI-Agenten setzen Nvidia und Partner nun auf offene Standards zur Cyberabwehr. Einige Brancheng…
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open weights and infrastructure after shaking up the frontier model race
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3's model weights and made parts of its infrastructure open source. The Chinese model nea…
Public Administration / Civil Service
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Snapchat is cracking down on AI slop in Spotlight
Videos made with AI will no longer appear in Snapchat's public recommendations.…
Money usually wins elections. Billionaires have already poured $433 million into the 2026 midterms—and 80% of it is going to Republicans
The bigger spender wins up to 90% of the time. But strategists on both sides say money follows winners more than it make…
Additive Manufacturing / 3D Printing
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FIFA World Cup private investment plan explained: Why teams are vowing to boycott the controversial scheme
Team associations across Europe, Asia, and North America are pushing back hard against a plan they say treats the World …
Verizon scores $1 billion Google deal to connect its data centers to dark fiber - but is this only the beginning?
$1bn Google deal is the first step in Verizon’s AI infrastructure growth plan, with a number of deals said to be worth b…
Tech Reporting & Deep Dives
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EU pools up to €30 billion for AI gigafactories while US tech giants casually spend 20 times more
The European Commission wants to build up to seven AI gigafactories across Europe, backed by around 30 billion euros in …
Microsoft stock soars as Meta sinks: Why the two AI giants are heading in opposite directions today
Two of the biggest so-called AI hyperscalers reported earnings after the bell on Wednesday. Their share prices this morn…
Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them
Microsoft is on a mad dash behind the scenes to patch exploits before hackers find them.…
Only one ‘Magnificent 7’ stock is having a truly magnificent year. The reason may surprise you
As investors grow more concerned about AI-driven capex from tech giants, Apple’s measured strategy might look more appea…
Other
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The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago
Article URL: https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/117023736804129342 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491…
Google handed users the easiest possible tool for fake satellite imagery, then pulled it after two days
Google pulled its Nano Banana 2 image model from Google Earth just two days after launch. Users showed how easy it was t…
Apple and Google are hosting hundreds of dangerous VPN links — here is why your device is at risk
TechRadar data has uncovered how VPN listings on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store are, in some cases, hiding li…
Einzelhandel: Warenhausbetreiber Galeria holt sich Sanierer in die Geschäftsleitung
Das Unternehmen macht Ernst mit dem angekündigten Umbau und erweitert das Führungsteam. Der Neue ist in der Branche beka…
Handel: Edeka darf wohl weniger Tegut-Märkte übernehmen als geplant
Die Supermarktkette Tegut soll verkauft werden. Den Großteil der Standorte will Edeka erwerben. Aber das Kartellamt hat …
Language models can't spark scientific revolutions, but world models might
Can language models spark a scientific revolution? In a position paper titled "LLMs can't jump," Google Deepmind's Tom Z…
LLM Honeypot
Article URL: https://llm2human.pages.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104117 Points: 249 # Comm…
Google teases the Pixel 11 Pro and hints at a new camera bar feature
We played spot the difference and noticed this intriguing difference in Google's teaser for the Pixel 11 Pro.…
Souveränität: Abwehr von Terrorismus und Spionage: Kann dieses Unternehmen die Abhängigkeit von Palantir brechen?
Chapsvision wird als Alternative zur US-Ermittlungssoftware Palantir gehandelt. Jetzt nimmt das französische Unternehmen…
Arbeitsmarkt: Mehr Firmen bieten weniger Ausbildungsplätze an
Fast jedes dritte Unternehmen reduziert das Ausbildungsangebot. Warum viele Betriebe dennoch an der Ausbildung festhalte…
Don't ask an LLM for a confidence score
Article URL: https://justinflick.com/2026/07/27/llm-confidence-scores.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it…
“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win
Google's and Reddit's use of DMCA to fight web scraper is bizarre, expert says.…
Google Pixel 11 launch event: Everything we expect as price increase rumors grow
Here's what the rumor mill tells us Google might be preparing for its next Pixel launch.…
Onlinehandel: 99 Millionen Dollar Verlust: Shein macht schwache Zahlen öffentlich
Die Online-Plattform Shein will in Hongkong an die Börse. Potenzielle Anleger konnten sich nun ein Bild von der Lage des…
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